Free Nokia N95 8GB Plus 500 Mins & 500 texts for only £35 p/mth + 3 mths ½ price line rental!
Skip to content

Using the Nokia N95 as modem for a Mac over Bluetooth on Vodafone Live in Holland

tagged with:, , , , ,

I just spoke a friend who asked me whether I knew how to use a Nokia N95 wirelessly as modem for his Mac.

Funny thing is that I am bound to go on a short business trip where I was looking for the same. My Powerbook does not have any 3G dongle or wahtsoever and I too happen to have a plan with Vodafone…

FYI: I am using an Apple Powerbook G4 15″ with the latest update of Leopard (10.5.2) and a Nokia N95-1 with the one-but-last firmware (my bad, still have to update)

So, I searched a few forums and blogs and found the following to do for setting this up (to be clear: aim is to use a Nokia N95 as UMTS modem to connect a Apple/Mac to the internet…):

  1. Go to “Ross Barkman’s Home page” and download the Nokia 3G scripts for UMTS & EDGE
  2. Copy the 3 CID files into Library/Modem Scripts in Finder
  3. Use the “Setup Bluetooth device” wizard to connect your Nokia N95 to your Mac. Make sure to tick the box with “Access the Internet with your phone’s data connection”.
  4. In the last step, enter the following details (! Mind you, this is for Netherlands and Vodafone only! For other countries + operators, please check this list)
    • Phone vendor: Nokia
    • Phone Model: GPRS (GSM/3G)
    • Username: vodafone
    • Password: vodafone
    • APN: live.vodafone.com
    • CID: 1
  5. That’s it. Click “continue” and finalize the wizard.

Connect Bluetooth

Now, when you have your phone connected by Bluetooth and select “connect Bluetooth” in your Mac’s modem prefs… it automatically connects over UMTS using your phone’s bluetooth connection.

Easy does it and I am ready to go!

Posted 07 April 2008 by jan § N95 Tips § N95 Advanced § N95 Functionality ‡ Comments (13)

Nokia N95 new firmware update version 21.0.016 released

tagged with:No Tags

Nokia Europe announced today the official release of the new Nokia N95 firmware update version 21.0.016 which is now ready to download and install with Nokia Software Update .

The new firmware comes with awesome new features as:

  • Flash Lite 3 so you can easily run flash video sites including my favourite site YouTube.
  • The Web runtime support is now included for widgets.
  • Improved Gallery performance, speed and controls.
  • Improvements to Bluetooth headset interoperability.
  • Standby-time improvements.
  • Faster Java runtime for Java applications.
  • Improvement to long text writing to web page dialogs.

In the next few days we will come to you with more features and bug fixes in this long anticipated software update.

Image source: www.allaboutsymbian.com

 

Posted 26 March 2008 by ahmed § N95 Functionality ‡ Comments (29)
click here

N95 8GB Officially Released in the USA

tagged with:No Tags

The Nokia N95 8GB has officially arrived to USA only few months before the release of the new and improved N96.

The phone comes with all its basic features and  HSDPA connanectivity.Also it’s shipping with six months free voice-directed navigation.

But the real downside of this awesome phone is that high price tag of $749!

Do you think N95 8GB will find success in USA? …. Personally, I doubt.

Posted 22 March 2008 by ahmed § N95 Talk ‡ Comments (6)

Nokia N96 Release Date Rumors

tagged with:No Tags

  The Carphone Warehouse’s (The largest UK mobile retailer) has spotted August 2008 as the expected release date for Nokia N96 according to their Insider e-zine.

The new phone comes with some improvement to the current Nokia N95 with a massive 16 GB internal Memory, 5 Megapixel with double LED flash camera and DVB-H mobile TV support.

According to Nokia’s official site, N96 is expected to ship in Q3.

Posted 12 March 2008 by ahmed § N96 ‡ Comments (17)

Nokia Maps 2.0 For Nokia N95 … Share Your Experience

tagged with:No Tags

It’s been a while since Nokia released the newest version of Nokia Maps with the introduction of Walk - Pedestrian navigation using breadcrumbs and much improved driving navigation with real-time traffic routing.

It has also advanced search functions allowing users to search by category (addresses, cities, streets, etc ……).

One great feature in Nokia Maps 2.0 is the satellite maps which are now available for over 200 cities worldwide, The satellite maps are downloaded and are saved automatically.

If you haven’t used Nokia Maps 2.0 beta yet, It’s available for all Nokia N95 users to download from nokia’s official website: http://www.nokia.com/betalabs/maps/

Please share your thoughts about this improved application and list your pros and cons .

Posted 11 March 2008 by ahmed § N95 Talk ‡ Comments (7)

FM Aerial Accessory For Nokia N95 or similar

tagged with:, , , ,

FM Radio Aerial For Nokia N95, N95 8Gb, and other Smartphones

Aerial for Nokia N95This simple aerial enables Smartphones such as the Nokia N95 to be operated as a stand-alone high quality FM radio, using the phones’ own loudspeakers.It conveniently replaces the headphone lead as an aerial source, and can be easily adjusted for optimum reception in any environment where listening on the supplied headphones was previously possible.The aerial is simply inserted into the 3.5mm audio jack socket, “Visual Radio” is selected as an application, and the speakers are switched on via , .All other radio functions operate as normal, including volume, station selection and storage etc.

The aerial has to be removed to answer an incoming or make an outgoing call, but the radio is easily re-instated afterwards by following the above procedure.

The aerial is 150mm long, 4mm diameter, can be adjusted through 180 degrees, is made of flexible wire and plastic coated for safety.

The aerial will probably work successfully with other Nokia Smartphones and other manufacturers’ phones, if they have a built-in FM radio which normally uses the headphone lead as an aerial, a 3.5mm headphone socket, and the facility for enabling built-in speakers when the FM radio is on.

Priced at only £3.99, it’s the most useful, low cost accessory I have found yet for my mobile phone.

Find it on ebay (UK) - search for “FM Aerial for Nokia N95″

Posted 05 March 2008 by 0511steve § Not just N95 § N95 Advanced ‡ Comments (7)

Nokia S60 Phones to turn on Microsoft’s Silverlight

tagged with:, ,

Nokia announced today plans to make Microsoft Silverlight available for S60 on Symbian OS. Microsoft will also develop a version of Silverlight to run on Nokia’s older S40 platform, as well as Nokia’s Internet tablets

Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in which can be used for a wide variety of interactive multimedia applications similar to Adobe dominant Flash player. Microsoft Silverlight allows designers and developers to produce rich web applications that are independent of browser, operating system and handset.

www.microsoft.com/silverlight

It is used in the upcoming Nokia’s N96 smartphone.And I think this is a great shot for Microsoft to partner with Nokia ,The market leader of smartphone technology.

“This is an important relationship on so many levels. Working with Nokia means we are easily able to reach a huge number of mobile users, including customers of all S60 licensees. This is a significant step in gaining broad acceptance for Silverlight and ensuring it is platform agnostic. This is critical since we want to make sure developers and designers don’t have to constantly recreate the wheel and build different versions of applications and services for multiple operating systems, browsers and platforms,” said S. Somasegar, Senior Vice President of Microsoft’s Developer Division.

According to Adobe, 450 million devices have been shipped with a version of Flash, known as Flash Lite.And the question now is , Will Micrsosoft Silverlight be able to compete with Flash?

Posted 04 March 2008 by ahmed § N96 § Not just N95 ‡ Comments (7)

Change of ownership at N95blog

tagged with:, , , ,

Dear all,

After quite a period of silence after the announcement of N95blog being for sale, I am happy to say that the blog has been sold and thus has found a new owner:

My name is Ahmed, I’m a 25 years old doctor from Egypt but I work on the internet part time. I love reading, playing football, listening to music and watching movies. My favorite website is Youtube and my best movie is The Godfather.

I hope I can provide valuable info and assistance to all Nokia N95 users through this quality blog and continue what Jan has done over the last year. 

I wish Ahmed a lot of joy and all the best in his new position and trust that he will do his utmost to maintain the exposure and status of this blog. 

I say Thank You to all readers and visitors of this blog for their contributions and feedback in the past year.

More information on the process of the sale and my experiences during the sale can be found in this post: “N95blog.com in retrospect: The Rise and Sale of a blog”

Signing off for now, hope that you give Ahmed feedback that he can use and keep on providing this blog with the N95 information and experiences that it needs!

Kindest regards and take care,

Jan
(http://ipears.com)

PS Yes, I will keep an eye on this blog and maybe post every now and then for good ol’ sake. :D

Posted 01 March 2008 by jan § n95blog ‡ Comments (8)

Newbie Question: Download my Videos from Nokia N95 8GB to my laptop?

tagged with:, , ,

I’m wondering if anyone can help me?

I’ve just brought the N95 8GB and I can’t download any of my videos to my laptop it just won’t accept them. I’ve even downloaded “realplayer” to my laptop as that’s the app on the phone but stil nothing. It will let me view the file but when I try and Copy, transfer, send the file it won’t work.

Has anyone had any problems with this before?

Any help would be great, thanks

Posted 29 February 2008 by nwaite § N95 Talk ‡ Comments (7)

An in-depth look into S60 feature pack 2: Screenshot galore at Mobile-Review

tagged with:, , ,

In this case it totally does NOT matter whether you can read Russian or not.

Mobile-Review reviewed S60’s feature pack 2 and has put up all details in one huge post… containing an amazing load of screenshots of all possible screen in this version of S60.

“See” the full review here. 

Posted 29 February 2008 by jan § Not just N95 ‡ Comments (4)